She's Got the Look

Recently, I have been thinking about body image and things like that. I've been losing weight on a diet of sorts since October-ish. Last month, I tried on my interview suits and they were too big, so I went to the Limited to get a smaller size. I now fit into a size 2 there (the skirts & jackets that I had before, which I purchased in June or July, were a size 8). Interestingly, I still don't feel skinny. Skinnier and smaller, but not actually truly skinny, despite the fact that when I was a size 8 I thought that I would feel skinny at a size 2. Now I say to myself, I'll be skinny when I'm a size two in Store X. But will it ever end? I'm beginning to think not. Yesterday I was watching What Not to Wear on TLC, and in both of the episodes that I saw, the women really truly sincerely did not think that they were pretty (let alone beautiful) AT ALL, which I found really sad. I think for once, loooooong after Middle School, I understand this whole body image thing. I mean, I understood it in one sense before, but I went to a school without bullying really. I was overweight in Middle School, but I was never teased or bugged about it at all, so I never developed any sort of complex about it. I think about weight issues much more now than I ever remember doing then for some unknown reason. Does any woman who's not maybe a wee bit arrogant feel truly skinny? I have my doubts.

On a similar but somewhat unrelated note, what is with the women who walk around the gym locker room completely naked? That's so weird. Great that you're so comfortable with yourself, but really. The rest of us don't want to see all of that.